Ralph: TRAVEL DAYS, starting at Rock Hall, MD; travel at trawler speeds. Overnight at: 1. Chesapeake City (free dock, or anchor) 2. Cohansey River (or straight to Cape May) - anchorage 3. Cape May (tourist things) - anchorage if passing through 4. NJ Inside-4 days (Atlantic City, Beach Haven, Point Pleasant, Jersey City anchorage @ LLSP); 4. NJ Outside-3 days (Barnegat Light, Sandy Hook, Jersey City anchorage @ LLSP) 5. Haverstraw Bay - anchorage 6. Poughkeepsie Yacht Club (to eat at the CIA and visit Roosevelt and Vanderbuilt Estates); otherwise, Kingston (Rondout Ck) 7. Albany Yacht Club; Or Troy docks 8. Waterford - free wall; for a spot on the floating dock, get there mid-to-late morning, after morning departures and before afternoon arrivals) 9. Mechanicville (free wall; re-supply within walking distance; low RR bridge, which lockmasters can lower the pool to get you some clearance) 10. FT. EDWARD - call Fred; dinner at Anchor Inn 11. Whitehall - lock wall - Skenesville Museum 12. Barn Rock Harbor - beautiful, remote anchorage 13. Burlington - Boat House Marina (On the way in, fuel at Shelburne Shipyard, about 45 min South of Burlington. They often have the best fuel prices on the lake. Fuel in Canada will be $1 or more per gallon higher than in the US. Free health care is not free, no matter what you've been told. Do not fuel in NY, either.) 14. Rouses Point (make sure paperwork is in order) 15. Ste. Jean-Sur-Richelieu (this will definitely go better if you can muster some French; lockmaster has only a hand-held VHF, and speaks broken English; none willingly. Same at Montebello.) 16. Chambly (French fort, ca: 1749, located here. It's a must see!) 17. Ste. Ours (lock wall) or Sorel (marina) 18. Montreal - Yacht Club of Montreal 19. Ste. Anne de Bellevue - lock wall; a fun town, busy on weekends. 20. Montebello - Marina 21. Ottawa - canal wall So, including Delaware Bay and Jersey, 22- 24 travel days, which I think was your question. But, lots to see and do. I would figure multi-day (2 to 5) stops at: 1. Poughkeepsie/Kingston, NY, whichever you pick. If Pok, make reservations ***NOW*** for diner at the CIA. I like the Italian Room, but the American Bounty Room is also good. While there, FDR's home is a Presidential Historical Site and Museum. If Kingston, I prefer the City Docks to the Roudout Yacht Basin, because it's on the Strand rather than across the river. See the small maritime museum there. Great little Mexican Restaurant (Armadillo) around the corner on Abeel St. 2. Whitehall; lots of Revolutionary War history. free wall. 3. Burlington - one obvious place guests could meet you. You could put them off at Montreal. If you do this, all must have Passports, mostly to get back into the US. From here, the next several days are very good river/canal cruising. Science Museum here, and foo foo shopping (the ladies will like it) 4. Chambly - definitely, visit the fort 5. Montreal - another obvious place to take on/discharge guests (much to see and do) 6. Ottawa - another obvious place to take on/discharge guests (much to see and do) Relative to river currents on the St. Lawrence; no worries. It's no more than 1 kt at Sorel. For about 7 - 10 miles northeast of Montreal, it steadily builds as you approach the Lachene Rapids from around 1.5 kt to about 4 or 5 kts. Follow Skipper Bob's advice here: hug the southeast shore of the river, outside the channel markers, to take advantage of eddies that will make this portion of the trip much easier. As you pass the entrance to the big lock at Ste. Lambert, begin to think about crossing the river in that current. It's easy; make very small heading corrections and just let the boat slide you sideways. The Yacht Club of Montreal is in an old quay, and is marked by a 200' white marble Clock Tower. As you enter, you will break out of the fast current into dead calm water, so stay alert at the helm as you'll have to come off the power quickly there! Relative to Montreal and Ottawa, Peg and I make it our very first activity to take one of the tourist tours around the city. That gives us a sense of what's around, and then we can decide what we'd like to see in more detail. These are historic and interesting towns, well worth extended visits. On the wall at Ottawa, strip the decks, secure your American Flag, and lock the boat. There are steel bollards on the wall. I used my anchor chain to secure the boat to one of the bollards. You will probably not have any problems here, but best to proactively discourage the local youngun's. Will you be in Fernandina Beach? Jim Peg and Jim Healy aboard Sanctuary Currently at Charlotte Harbor, Punta Gorda, FL Monk 36 Hull #132 MMSI #367042570 AGLCA #3767 MTOA #3436